”Oi kau ka lau, E hana I ola Honua” Live your life while the sun is still shining: the wind behind, the ocean beyond, sometimes the rainbows above and mountains and cliffs and Nature next to you. Thank you for making me feel tiny, humble and inspired all at once.
The Kalalau Trail is a truly life experience along Nā Pali Coast of the hawaian island of Kauai. The trail runs approximately 11 miles (18 km) along the island’s north shore from Keʻe Beach to the Kalalau Valley and then to the Kalalau Beach. It’s one of the most beautiful, and dangerous, hikes in the world.
The first section of the trail is a two-mile (3 km) stretch from Keʻe Beach to Hanakapiai stream and beach. Here is where everything begins and from where you need to obtain a camping permit from the Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources. The next section connects Hanakapiai stream to Hanakoa Valley, untile mile six (9 km) and then continues on to Kalalau Valley, a large, flat-bottomed valley almost a mile across. After hiking down Red Hill, it is about a half mile to Kalalau Beach. That last part is amazing, it’s like the most perfect part of the Earth. Plants, flowers, sounds, sea, wind, everything…that last part to the beach it’s the “Garden of Eden”
The narrow trail, three major stream crossings that can rapidly rise when raining, and falling rocks…this is why it’s so dangerous.
But curiosity spurs us to venture further and further and go deep into the wild. And it’s not only a trail, it’s a journey and you need so much time, also after you came back, to understand what you had lived.
When you go after the last part and you “dive” into the Kalalau Beach, you find a surreal world. Many travelers believe that a place can leave an everlasting mark on your heart and soul. Like this beach does! Here is where the spectrum of emotions you’ll go through, when experiencing one more amazing sunset, makes you understand that once you’ve had it, you’ll always want it. Wait for it! You will discover, I hope, the most beautiful thing that my eyes have ever seen on Earth. The most peaceful, energetic, exciting place.
The perfection of the Planet explodes while I am amazed to admire this immense, surreal beauty.
I felt lost in a land where there is neither space nor time as we know it, but that wraps the continuous evolving of things with a magic bubble.
Devastating! Unpredictable!
It’s like living in the time machine, you go back to the past and relive it with the awareness of the present, you return to the present in a temporal connection with the past to live it with enthusiasm and love. You have no mental or human boundaries over there. You feel inside this magic bubble or inside another unreal planet. Laws, physics, human beings are different when you find the fairness of the Eden.
Thank you Matt Kievlan
Overwhelmed by the perfection of this beach, embedded in an ancient casket, bordered by sacred peaks. The glow of the sun’s rays, shortly after dawn, gradually affects the color on the sharpest ridges, setting them on fire with green, brown, orange, yellow and perfumes that, like gold, inebriate the senses. And the chirping of birds everywhere. And the ocean waves at least three meters high. The waterfall, the palm trees, the campfire. The human smile of unknown friends.
And then just the chills down my spine for something I can’t forget.
Luca Oliveri 
“Live your life while the sun is still shining”- I am loving this. Just amazing photos and adventures. The world is truly beautiful. All we have to do is to discover its hidden charm.
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